Even if Lucretius's and Epicurus's model points apparently towards a continuously metamorphosing universe, this is true only at a superficial layer. The Epicurean universe is really non-metamorphosing. Death is the collapse of a certain temporally delimited aggregate of atoms, and no "invariant" is conceivable. This is why the very concept of metamorphosis does not have any sense -- change is continuous but with no trace left of a previous state of aggregation.
Milanese, G. F., «Mutatas dicere formas?» Lucrezio e la metamorfosi negata, in Metamorfosi di Kafka. Teatro, cinema e letterature, (Brescia, 27-28 February 2014), Sedizioni Diego Dejaco ditore, Mergozzo 2014: 77-84 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/62190]
«Mutatas dicere formas?» Lucrezio e la metamorfosi negata
Milanese, Guido Fabrizio
2014
Abstract
Even if Lucretius's and Epicurus's model points apparently towards a continuously metamorphosing universe, this is true only at a superficial layer. The Epicurean universe is really non-metamorphosing. Death is the collapse of a certain temporally delimited aggregate of atoms, and no "invariant" is conceivable. This is why the very concept of metamorphosis does not have any sense -- change is continuous but with no trace left of a previous state of aggregation.
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